President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day that came after decades of effort by abolitionists and amid the Civil War. In 2025, ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union and ending slavery in America ... country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed ... William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political ... Major Acts In practical terms, the ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln ... the difference between Lincoln’s historical actions and views regarding slavery and how American history ...

whose members were strongly opposed to the westward expansion of slavery into new states, was gaining prominence. The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided ...